Attorney(s) appearing for the Case
Eric D. Katz, (Argued), Mazie, Slater, Katz & Freeman, Roseland, NJ, for Appellees.
John E. Keefe, Jr., Keefe Bartel, Shrewsbury, NJ, for Appellees.
John J. Calkins, Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal, Washington, DC, DanaLynn T. Colao, Saiber, Newark, NJ, for Allstate NJ Insurance Company.
Mark G. Arnold, (Argued), Husch Blackwell Sanders, St. Louis, MO, for Liberty Mutual Fire.
Meloney C. Perry, (Argued), Meckler Bugler Tilson Marick & Pearson, Dallas, TX, David F. Swerdlow, Windels, Marx, Lane & Mittendorf, Princeton, NJ, for Geico Insurance Company.
Stephen R. Katzman, Methfessel & Werbel, Edison, NJ, for First Trenton Indemnity Company.
Joseph J. DePalma, Bruce D. Greenberg, Lite, De Palma, Greenberg & Rivas, Newark, NJ, for High Point Insurance Company and NJ Manufacturing Insurance Company.
Daniel J. Pomeroy, Mortenson & Pomeroy, Springfield, NJ, for High Point Insurance Company and NJ Manufacturing Insurance Company.
Before: McKEE, RENDELL, and SMITH, Circuit Judges.
United States Court of Appeals, Third Circuit.
OPINION
SMITH, Circuit Judge.
The Class Action Fairness Act of 2005 (CAFA)1 confers jurisdiction on federal courts over certain class actions in which any defendant and any class member are citizens of different states. 28 U.S.C. § 1332(d)(2). CAFA further enables any defendant to remove a qualifying class action to federal court. Id. § 1453(b). Under CAFA's "local controversy" exception, however, a federal court...
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